Tourism bosses are considering recruiting cabbies and bus drivers to give visitors tips about where to go in Brighton and Hove.
Proposals to improve the city's tourist information service also include creating small help points at city businesses, arts venues, council buildings and the seafront office.
The city council would ask taxi and bus drivers and others in regular contact with the public to take part in a voluntary "ambassador" training scheme.
The suggestions are made in a report due to be debated at a culture and tourism committee meeting at Hove Town Hall on June 14.
The report recommends moving the main visitor information centre from Bartholomew Square to the shop at the Royal Pavilion.
The city's eight million visitors spend £400 million a year and about 7,000 full-time jobs are dependent on trippers and business visitors.
Sue John, chair of the city's culture and tourism committee, said: "It's about a more personal greeting and creating a great first impression."
In the Fifties Brighton and Hove had "promettes," uniformed staff walking around handing out information between the piers.
At the time, Brighton had 150,000 tourism enquiries a year.
Today there are 1.3 million annual enquiries via the web, emails, phone and in person.
Friday, June 9, 2006
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